Trump insists shakeup in MN immigration operations isn't a 'pullback'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

Updated Jan. 27, 2026, 9:16 p.m. ET


DES MOINES — President Donald Trump said he wants to "de-escalate" the explosive situation in Minnesota after federal agents fatally shot two people in recent weeks, insisting a shakeup in leadership of his immigration enforcement team in the state was not a "pullback" by the administration.

The Trump administration has been reeling from intense backlash to its operations in Minnesota after federal agents killed Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti this month. The president sent Tom Homan, his border czar, to take over the Minnesota operation led by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Border Patrol leader Gregory Bovino.

Immigration enforcement tactics in Minnesota have generated heavy criticism, and Trump indicated during a Fox News interview before a speech in Clive, Iowa, that Bovino's "out there" approach wasn't right for the situation. "Bovino is very good," Trump said. "But he's a pretty out there kind of a guy, and in some cases, that's good maybe it wasn't good here."

Trump also said during the interview that he wants to take down the temperature as protesters clash with federal agents in the streets of Minneapolis, a chaotic scene punctuated by the pair of shocking deaths that have gripped the nation. "We're going to de-escalate a little bit," the president said. Trump changed course in Minneapolis after federal agents shot Pretti on Jan. 24, toning down his rhetoric and speaking with Democratic leadership in Minnesota as he retreated from the confrontational approach that has characterized his immigration enforcement efforts.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/27/donald-trump-minnesota-ice-iowa-immigration-pretti-good/88382261007/

[C_U_L8R]

1. Just a reloading.

And creating an illusion of strategy-shift so funding continues to flow an image-conscious congress.

[Bengus81]

2. Yeah make no mistake,we will kill more....a little later

So....I guess the giving Bondi all the voting data for the State so they can disenfranchise millions of voters was a NO Trump?

[Roy Rolling]

3. A friendly reminder

PAY ATTENTION

This is what revolution looks like in the embryo stage. Learn to recognize the signs and symptoms.

The first sign of the enemy: Trump says

Any person, company, or media outlet whose commercial existence is dependent on alliance with Trump needs to be actively resisted, not passively ignored. This is a media/branding war and their general is Trump—the worst branding executive in the history of commercial branding.

He will forever be branded ETTD. His downfall is inevitable the more they follow his instructions. Just don’t help and actively resist 24/7/365 until Antifa dominates MAGA.

[suegeo]

4. Exclusive: Hegseth boosts Minneapolis immigration siege, approving use of military base

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143605609

The fascists are digging in, using Ft. Snelling

Fort Snelling is already the site of a U.S. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement field office and a DHS immigration enforcement and detention processing center. CBP will use land on a U.S. Army Reserve base there. “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requests support from the Department of War (DoW) to provide existing infrastructure to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a component of DHS, specifically an area for parking approximately 300-500 vehicles and 10 storage trailers, a ready room space for approximal 500-800 CBP personnel, a space to house, maintain and operate five CBP Air Assets, access to a magazine to store munitions, and other necessary facilities to support operations in the Minneapolis, Minnesota metropolitan area,” the email said.

Someone said the malignant narcissist is taking something bad away, how great! Then replacing the bad thing with a piece of candy. Then when you eat the candy you get explosive diarrhea

[chowmama]

5. I don't think there'll be a real pullback or reorganization

This is the sort of thing that Trump (and his puppeteers) do. There's a vote coming up - play nice till we get the money. Then we renege on all the agreements.

Meanwhile, they're quietly digging in.

[Lulu KC]

6. Yeah, we know

And they know in Minneapolis, too, you big dummy.

[delisen]

7. A Horror Show in which members of the audience & actors may be beaten, killed, humiliated

This is the Trump/Miller/Project 2025 design for the show, Minneapolis Ice or Retribution
It is a bizarre form of entertainment as imagined by people who are cut off from our shared reality and values , and cut off from their own humanity.

The ratings are not good. If the ratings were good they would not be appearing to pull back, to edit

The conmen have not lost confidence in their vision. They have invested everything in it and cannot give it up willingly. It is the creation of their inhuman obsession with power, pain, dominance, destruction and death.

The defenders in Minnesota have shown us the path forward to something better and the the path we have to take back to
government of, for, and by the people.

[bluestarone]

8. One thing here folks. IF and i mean IF he has the military.

WE are in big trouble. Does he? By the looks of it today i'm really worried.

[Lotusflower70]

9. Stay on guard

I don't expect him to capitulate at this point. Especially with Homan coming here. It is about optics and his ego. We have to pay attention and not be complacent

[maxsolomon]

10. Whatever, President Pathological Liar.

You were ready to invoke the Insurrection Act before Pretti was summarily executed.

The rhetoric from your underlings has been reckless and appalling, and it's just a continuation of the demonization of the Left that's been going on from 1/20/25. Antifa is a Domestic Terror org, organized resistance/protest is Domestic Terrorism, we're paid to protest, blah blah.

F all the way off.

[Martin68]

14. I believe you are right. We have much to than the people of Minnesota for.

[The Roux Comes First]

11. The Only Thing He's More Afraid of Than More TACO Confirmation is His Own Cowardly Shadow

[turbinetree]

12. "Bovino is very good," Trump said. "But he's a pretty out there kind of a guy, and in some cases, that's good maybe it

it wasn't good here."

Spoken like a true psychopath...........with dementia..............like listen to me talk in circles...........

[Martin68]

13. The fact that Trump feels the need to say this is proof that it is indeed a pullback.Go Minnesota!

[paleotn]

15. Yeah, and there's some kind of "deal" for Greenland.

Shut up, TACO boy. You got metaphorically punched in the face and you're backing off like the coward bully you are.

[mdbl]

16. Someday these reporters will get the fact that Dump will just give them stupid answers

No matter what they ask. Why bother anymore?

[homegirl]

17. Professional on Trump's brain...